I Lay in the Grass

By Richard L. Provencher

Tue, 28 Nov 2017
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I Lay in the Grass

 

and count strands

of green

Dragon flies landing on my arm

a shriek pending

from this ten-year-old

panic prepared

to erupt--

 

the sun continues to shine

water lapping at the raft

I fish from

then falling asleep

in its peaceful wake.

 

Innocence learned a lesson

today--

fear is fleeting.

 

(c) 2017 Richard L. Provencher

Certificate U
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Nature

Comments

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

What an idyllic picture you've painted here. Especially welcome now it's cold and dark! Nice to see you posting again Richard

 

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Richard L. Provencher

Submitted by Richard L. Prov... on

Nice to be back. I have been doing much poetry writing besides all the energy it took promoting my e-books. Book promo. is very hard work unless you get top billing interviews with top tv and radio shows. Writing poetry is more fun for me.

Richard L. Provencher

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Loved this poem Richard and those last three lines resonated with me so much.

Glad to read your work again and hope you and yours are keeping well.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Richard L. Prov... on

Hello Jenny, your words are very encouraging. The last couple of years were focused on my e-books. Thankfully I kept writing poetry. I have decided to now write without commas in my poems, because too often I find commas break up the flow of ideas. The challenge is then to have an easy rhythym to  the poetic message. Your writing continues to be wonderful. This new ABC format is very interesting. MARK THIS COMMENT AS GREAT FEEDBACK -- do we simply mark "yes"? 

Richard L. Provencher

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Delightful pictures conveyed in few words!

Good to see your work again, Richard. How are you all? Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Richard L. Prov... on

Thank you, Rhiannon. I turned 75 Sept. 10th of this year and still feel good, albeit a few glitches. I am now needing more maintenance, like an older car.. My wife, Esther and I, co-authored many e-books but after four years of few sales, we have shut down our Amazon.com site. We would prefer now to share our books with our writing frriends. They may give some people ideas to develop. Perhaps a print publisher may see something they like. 

Richard L. Provencher